bends

/ bɛndz /

plural noun

1. functioning as singular or plural a nontechnical name for decompression sickness

Example Sentences

He pressed pause and then sang the song’s first verse to me, emphasizing how Clark bends the word “blind.”

From Los Angeles Times

Times like these test the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous words that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice” — even as modified by former President Obama, who added that “progress is bumpy. It always has been.”

From Los Angeles Times

Investigators found the car he was driving had been travelling at excessive speed as it negotiated bends before it then left the road and hit a tree.

From BBC

With the psychological deftness of a cult leader, Trump is able to infiltrate the shadowed corners of America’s consciousness, casting a sinister silhouette that bends reality into a fevered hallucination of chaos and bloodlust.

From Salon

Route 191 bends east here, passing by blooming cotton fields nourished by the Gila River before the terrain becomes rockier and steeper.

From Los Angeles Times